Armed Forces: Manpower

Andrew Murrison: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 25 February 2010,  Official Report, column 674W, on armed forces: manpower, what the shortfall of  (a) reservists and  (b) regular (i) medical, (ii) nursing and (iii) paramedic staff was on 1 October in each year since 2002; and if he will make a statement.

Kevan Jones: The information requested is shown in the following tables for regular and reserve forces. To enable comparisons with past years using the data currently available, the total 'requirement' figures include 'manning and training margins' and the 'manning' figures include personnel who were both trained and in-training. Shortfalls have been addressed by a variety of means and they have never resulted in the Defence Medical Services being unable to meet their operational commitments. The standard of medical care provided to service patients remains extremely high as has been recognised by the House of Commons Defence Committee and the National Audit Office.
	
		
			  Regular forces 
			   Requirement  Manning  Shortfall (percentage) 
			  Data as of 1 October 2002
			 Doctors 1,060 918 13 
			 Nurses 1,976 1,600 19 
			 Dental Officers and Allied Dental Healthcare Professionals 817 858 -5(1) 
			 Medical Allied Health Professionals 4,610 3,748 19 
			 Total 8,463 7,124 16 
			 
			  Data as of 1 October 2003
			 Doctors 1,168 897 23 
			 Nurses 2,015 1,735 14 
			 Dental Officers and Allied Dental Healthcare Professionals 845 875 -4(1) 
			 Medical Allied Health Professionals 4,542 4,101 10 
			 Total 8,570 7,608 11 
			 
			  Data as of 1 October 2004
			 Doctors 1,199 998 17 
			 Nurses 2,052 1,805 12 
			 Dental Officers and Allied Dental Healthcare Professionals 913 829 9 
			 Medical Allied Health Professionals 5,255 3,846 27 
			 Total 9,419 7,478 21 
			 
			  Data as of 1 October 2005
			 Doctors 1,155 1,037 10 
			 Nurses 2,068 1,725 17 
			 Dental Officers and Allied Dental Healthcare Professionals 886 820 7 
			 Medical Allied Health Professionals 5,108 4,084 20 
			 Total 9,217 7,666 17 
			 
			  Data as of 1 October 2006
			 Doctors - 911 - 
			 Nurses - 1,758 - 
			 Dental Officers and Allied Dental Healthcare Professionals - 790 - 
			 Medical Allied Health Professionals - 4,029 - 
			 Total - 7,488 - 
			 
			  Data as of 1 October 2007
			 Doctors 1,132 1,050 7 
			 Nurses 1,889 1,745 8 
			 Dental Officers and Allied Dental Healthcare Professionals 992 788 21 
			 Medical Allied Health Professionals 4,286 4,221 2 
			 Total 8,298 7,804 6 
			 
			  Data as of 1 October 2008
			 Doctors 1,137 1,113 2 
			 Nurses 1,901 1,723 9 
			 Dental Officers and Allied Dental Healthcare Professionals 984 796 19 
			 Medical Allied Health Professionals 4,276 4,267 0 
			 Total 8,298 7,899 5 
			 
			  Data as of 1 October 2009
			 Doctors 1,137 1,076 5 
			 Nurses 1,901 1,677 12 
			 Dental Officers and Allied Dental Healthcare Professionals 984 774 21 
			 Medical Allied Health Professionals 4,276 4,063 5 
			 Total 8,298 7,590 9 
			 (1 )Surplus  Notes: 1. Requirement figures include 'manning and training margins'. 2. Manning data include personnel who are both trained and in-training. 3. Requirement data not available for October 2006 as this was being recast in a DMS-wide study at that date. 4. 'Medical Allied Health professionals' include the paramedics cadre. 
		
	
	
		
			  Reserve forces (Army and Navy) 
			   Requirement  Trained strength  Shortfall (percentage) 
			  Data as of 1 October 2002
			 Medical officers 771 499 35 
			 Nurses 2,343 1,337 43 
			 Medical support services 2,017 1,592 21 
			 Dental officers and allied dental healthcare professionals 128 57 55 
			 Total 5,259 3,485 34 
			 
			  Data as of 1 October 2003
			 Medical officers 857 544 37 
			 Nurses 2,487 1,390 44 
			 Medical support services 2,357 1,456 38 
			 Dental officers and allied dental healthcare professionals 128 55 57 
			 Total 5,829 3,445 41 
			 
			  Data as of 1 October 2004
			 Medical officers 566 354 37 
			 Nurses 2,114 1,076 49 
			 Medical support services 1,640 1,154 30 
			 Dental officers and allied dental healthcare professionals 128 52 59 
			 Total 4,448 2,636 41 
			 
			  Data as of 1 October 2005
			 Medical officers 566 348 39 
			 Nurses 2,105 1,024 51 
			 Medical support services 1,388 1,077 22 
			 Dental officers and allied dental healthcare professionals 128 50 61 
			 Total 4,187 2,499 40 
			 
			  Data as of 1 October 2006
			 Medical officers 566 339 40 
			 Nurses 2,105 973 54 
			 Medical support services 1,300 1,032 21 
			 Dental officers and allied dental healthcare professionals 40 25 38 
			 Total 4,011 2,369 41 
			 
			  Data as of 1 October 2007
			 Medical officers 527 333 37 
			 Nurses 2,053 815 60 
			 Medical support services 1,300 887 32 
			 Dental officers and allied dental healthcare professionals 40 16 60 
			 Total 3,920 2,051 48 
			 
			  Data as of 1 October 2008
			 Medical officers 618 336 46 
			 Nurses 1,400 883 37 
			 Medical support services 1,100 960 13 
			 Dental officers and allied dental healthcare professionals 27 18 33 
			 Total 3,145 2,197 30 
			 
			  Data as of 1 October 2009
			 Medical officers 607 326 46 
			 Nurses 1,440 813 44 
			 Medical support services 1,104 882 20 
			 Dental officers and allied dental healthcare professionals 27 16 41 
			 Total 3,178 2,037 36 
			  Notes: 1. 'Dental officers and allied dental healthcare professionals' include dental practitioners, dental support officers, dental surgery assistants and dental technicians. 2. 'Medical Support Services' include the paramedic cadre. 3. Data is only available in this form over this period for RN and Army Reservists. 
		
	
	
		
			  Royal Auxiliary Air Force (RAuxAF) 
			   Requirement  Trained strength  Shortfall (percentage) 
			  Data as of 1 October 2002
			 Total (all specialties) 225 154 32 
			 
			  Data as of 1 October 2003
			 Total (all specialties) 227 149 34 
			 
			  Data as of 1 October 2004
			 Total (all specialties) 229 133 42 
			 
			  Data as of 1 October 2005
			 Total (all specialties) 229 112 51 
			 
			  Data as of 1 October 2006
			 Total (all specialties) 229 98 57 
			 
			  Data as of 1 October 2007
			 Total (all specialties) 227 93 59 
			 
			  Data as of 1 October 2008
			 Total (all specialties) 227 95 58 
			 
			  Data as of 1 October 2009
			 Medical officers 33 12 64 
			 Nurses 86 44 49 
			 Medical Support Officers 6 4 33 
			 Dental officers and allied dental healthcare professionals 109 62 43 
			 Total 234 122 49 
			  Notes: 1. In 2009, the data system for recording RAuxAF manpower statistics was revised to contain more detail, including the introduction of recording personnel by trade.  2. For pre-2009 statistics, a breakdown of total numbers by trade could only be provided through manual search of the Joint Personnel Administration database. This information could therefore only be obtained at disproportionate cost. For years prior to 2009 the total shortfall percentage is provided.

Croydon

Andrew Pelling: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Croydon Central constituency, the effects on that constituency of his Department's policies since 2005.

Michael Wills: The Ministry of Justice's work spans criminal, civil and family justice, democracy, rights and the constitution. Every year around nine million people use, our services in 900 locations across the United Kingdom, including 650 courts and tribunals and 139 prisons in England and Wales.
	The range of the Department's policies and actions is wide and the statistical information relating to it is not normally collected on a constituency basis. Consequently, some of the information requested in the question cannot be provided in the form requested except at a disproportionate cost.
	Although data on sentencing for the period are not available for the constituency of Croydon, Central, it is available for London. These show the total number of offenders sentenced annually was 216,107 in 2005 and 242,429 in 2008, the latest period for which such information is available.
	The number of offences brought to justice for London increased from 182,350 for the 12 months ending 31 March 2006 to 230,202 (provisional figures) for the 12 months ending 31 March 2009.
	With regard to prosecutions, data are not available for the constituency of Croydon, Central. However, the total number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts by the Metropolitan Police was 261,617 in 2005, compared to 279,581 in 2008.
	The latest data, which cover reoffending in the period 1 October 2008 to 30 September 2009, showed that the three month reoffending rate for offenders on the probation caseload in Croydon was 9.49 per cent. After controlling for changes in the characteristics of offenders on the probation caseload, there was an increase in reoffending of 3.12 per cent. compared to the 2007-08 baseline. Data are not available prior to 2007 on this basis.
	The number of persons commencing court order supervision by the Probation Service in London was 18,931 in 2005 and 23,787 in 2008.
	154,616 civil non-family proceedings were started in the county courts of London Civil and Family HMCS area in 2009, compared to 175,889 in 2005. There were also 15,437 private law applications and 886 public law applications made in the county or High Courts of this HMCS area in 2008-09, compared to 14,540 and 1,207 respectively in 2005-06.
	In addition, at a national level:
	Local communities are being better engaged in criminal justice-by giving them a say in the types of Community Payback projects offenders carry out and allowing them to see justice being done, for example through the use of high visibility jackets. Offenders have now worked more than 14 million hours, with an estimated value to the taxpayer of over £80 million.
	Major constitutional reforms have been delivered, including devolution, the Human Rights Act, Freedom of Information, Lords Reform, and a new Supreme Court for the UK.

Charlie Whelan

Philip Dunne: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Ruislip-Northwood of 24 March 2010,  Official Report, column 295W, on Charlie Whelan, what type of pass Mr. Whelan holds; when it was issued; and who the sponsor is of the pass.

Nick Harvey: Mr. Whelan holds a temporary pass (light blue) issued in June 2009. It is sponsored by the parliamentary Labour party from within an agreed allocation.

Opposition

Nick Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 
	(1)  whether his Department has undertaken costings of the policies of the  (a) Conservative Party and  (b) Liberal Democrat Party at the request of Ministers or special advisers in the last 36 months;
	(2)  whether his Department has undertaken costings of the policies of  (a) the Conservative Party and  (b) the Liberal Democrat Party at the request of Ministers or special advisers in the last 36 months.

Ben Bradshaw: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him by my right hon. Friend the Exchequer Secretary (Sarah McCarthy-Fry) on 30 March 2010,  Official Report, column 1913W.

Departmental Information Officers

Nick Hurd: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many staff in  (a) his Department,  (b) HM Revenue and Customs,  (c) the Valuation Office Agency and  (d) his Department's other agencies (i) have the status of embedded communicators and (ii) are members of the Government Communications Network but are not listed in the Central Office of Information White Book.

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: HM Treasury and the Valuation Office Agency have no embedded communicators. HM Revenue and Customs has 304 embedded communicators. Of HM Treasury's agencies, the Office of Government Commerce has six embedded communicators and the Debt Management Office has none.
	Data is not held on Government Communications Network membership.

Revenue and Customs: Visits Abroad

Philip Hammond: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many staff at HM Revenue and Customs have visited  (a) Barbados,  (b) Vanuatu,  (c) St. Lucia,  (d) Spain,  (e) Turkey,  (f) Venezuela,  (g) New Zealand,  (h) Australia,  (i) Spain,  (j) Cyprus,  (k) Jamaica,  (l) Malta,  (m) Sri Lanka,  (n) China,  (o) Japan and  (p) the United Arab Emirates on official business in each of the last three years; and what the cost was of visits to each destination.

Stephen Timms: HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) staff may travel overseas where it is necessary to deliver the Department's objectives, including on fiscal fraud enforcement, enforcement of prohibition and restrictions, and the provision of mutual administrative assistance.
	Information disaggregated by country is not available, as publication of this information could compromise and prejudice the Department's compliance work.
	Aggregated information from HMRC's central travel contract on the number of HMRC staff who travelled to any of the countries in question, and the overall cost of air travel and hotel accommodation is set out in the following table.
	
		
			   Number of staff  Cost (£) 
			 2007-08 250 244,834 
			 2008-09 282 392,829 
			 April 2009 to December 2009 138 165,664 
		
	
	Information on other travel costs and expenses incurred by HMRC staff while abroad is only available at disproportionate cost.
	On occasion, for operational reasons, HMRC staff may book their travel through means other than the Department's travel contract. For example, this may be due to the need to travel at short notice, with colleagues from other organisations or to take advantage of special deals for cheaper flight tickets available elsewhere. Information on the number of staff who travelled to the destinations in question, and the expenditure incurred in doing so, having booked travel in this way is available only at disproportionate cost.

Taxation: Domicile

Graham Stuart: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people paid the £30,000 remittance basis charge in the 2008-09 tax year; how many people claimed to be non-domiciled in the UK in 2008-09 tax returns; and how many such people were resident in the UK.

Stephen Timms: holding answer 10 March 2010
	Based on an initial analysis of the Self Assessment returns received to date, HMRC estimate that around 4,600 individuals paid the remittance basis charge of £30,000 for the 2008-09 tax year. The same data also indicates that around 103,000 individuals claimed non-domicile status for 2008-09, of whom 74,000 were resident in the UK. However, these figures may need to be revised in the light of later tax returns.

Crime: Children

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what research his Department has  (a) commissioned and  (b) undertaken into (i) child victims of crime and (ii) child criminals in each of the last five years.

Alan Johnson: For purposes of this reply we have considered any Home Office research looking specifically or primarily at children (those aged under 18) as perpetrators or victims of crime, where the research was undertaken in 2005 or later. A number of Home Office research projects may include some information on young people as victims or offenders as part of a more general research study: these are not covered in this reply.
	 (i) Child victims of crime
	Since 2005 the Home Office has commissioned or undertaken the following research in respect of child victims:
	BMRB (British Market Research Bureau) were commissioned to extend the British Crime Survey (BCS) to include a representative sample of children aged 10 to 15 as part of the BCS 2010-11 fieldwork contract. The BCS was extended from January 2009 with the objective of providing estimates of victimisation among those aged 10 to 15 and better understanding children's experiences of victimisation and key crime related issues in England and Wales.
	The Home Office reported in 2009 on the key trends in monitoring Phase 1 of the Tackling Knives Action Programme (TKAP) aimed at reducing the carrying of knives and serious stabbings among teenagers (13 to 19-year-olds) in 10 police force areas. The report is available at:
	http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/horr18c.pdf
	The Home Office commissioned a process evaluation in March 2009 to look at the implementation of the Child Sex Offender Review public disclosure. The final report was published in March 2010.
	http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs10/horr32c.pdf
	 (ii) Child criminals
	Since 2005 the Home Office has commissioned or undertaken the following research in respect of child offenders:
	The Home Office was responsible for carrying out the Offending Crime and Justice Survey (OCJS) since 2003. The survey has completed four annual sweeps (2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006). The main aim of the survey is to gather information on young people's attitudes towards and experiences of offending in England and Wales (particularly those aged from 10 to 25). The OCJS also collects information about young people's victimisation experiences. Results from the 2005 and 2006 OCJS surveys are available at:
	http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/hosb1706.pdf
	and
	http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb0908.pdf
	In November 2009 longitudinal analysis of those who took part in all four years of the OCJS was published and is available at:
	http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/horr19c.pdf
	The Home Office commissioned the Juvenile Cohort Study in 2007. It was designed to provide evidence about which interventions are associated with reductions in re-offending for young offenders with different characteristics. Since the machinery of government changes (May 2007), this work is now owned and being taken forward by the Ministry of Justice.
	The Home Office commissioned an evaluation of the Drug Intervention Programme pilots for children and young people. The report was published in 2007.
	http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/rdsolr0707.pdf
	In 2009 the Home Office commissioned a process evaluation of the implementation of the Youth Crime Action Plan. This study is ongoing.

Crime: Shropshire

Owen Paterson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many  (a) car thefts,  (b) burglaries and  (c) violent crimes have been reported in North Shropshire in each year since 1997.

Alan Campbell: The requested information is given in the tables.
	Figures at Community Safety Partnership (CSP) level, formerly Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP), are available from 1999-2000 onwards. CSPs arose from the introduction of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.
	The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced in April 2002. Figures before and after this date are not directly comparable.
	Police recorded crime statistics are affected by changes in reporting and recording practice, and can be influenced by police priorities and activity.
	All of these factors need to be considered when looking at the trends in recorded crime. The Audit Commission undertook substantial audit work on crime recording in the years following the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002 (up until 2006-07) this indicating a generally increasing level of NCRS compliance across forces in this period.
	
		
			  Table 1: Offences recorded by the police in the North Shropshire Community Safety Partnership area-1999-2000 to 2001-02( 1) 
			  Number of offences 
			  Offence  1999-2000  2000-01  2001-02 
			 Violence against the person 491 436 738 
			 Burglary in a dwelling 222 217 180 
			 Other burglary * * * 
			 Theft of motor vehicle 166 148 111 
			 "*" = Not available. (1) The data in this table is prior to the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for later years. 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 2: Offences recorded by the police in the North Shropshire Community Safety Partnership area-2002-03 to 2008-09( 1) 
			  Number of offences 
			  Offence  2002-03  2003-04  2004-05  2005-06  2006-07  2007-08  2008-09 
			 Violence against the person 881 886 705 567 649 612 484 
			 Burglary in a dwelling 183 159 128 117 108 100 137 
			 Other burglary 574 453 392 397 329 412 360 
			 Theft of motor vehicle 129 98 104 79 84 78 78 
			 (1) The data in this table takes account of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for earlier years.

Crimes of Violence

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many  (a) murders and  (b) sexual offences recorded in (i) each police force area and (ii) England and Wales, in each year since 1998 remain unsolved.

Alan Johnson: The available information is given in the form of tables showing undetected crime in each financial year from 1998-99 to 2008-09. Tables 1 and 2 show the numbers for undetected homicides; tables 3 and 4 those for undetected sexual offences. As offences detected in the current year may initially have been recorded in an earlier year it is not possible to determine the numbers of undetected crime in a particular year.
	It should be noted that non-sanction detections, which contribute to the overall detection rates, have fallen in recent years. This reflects a significant shift by many police forces away from recording detections where no further action is taken. This will have had an impact on the number of crimes which remain undetected.
	
		
			  Table 1: Undetected homicides by police force area - 1998/99 to 2001/02 
			   Undetected 
			   1998-99  1999-2000  2000-01  2001-02 
			 Avon and Somerset 2 2 -3 6 
			 Bedfordshire -1 -2 3 0 
			 Cambridgeshire -2 0 -1 4 
			 Cheshire 1 0 0 1 
			 Cleveland 0 1 -2 1 
			 Cumbria 0 1 2 1 
			 Derbyshire 0 2 1 -2 
			 Devon and Cornwall 1 0 2 -1 
			 Dorset 2 -3 0 5 
			 Durham 0 -2 -1 0 
			 Dyfed-Powys 0 1 -1 0 
			 Essex 4 3 2 4 
			 Gloucestershire 2 1 1 3 
			 Greater Manchester -8 6 5 6 
			 Gwent 0 0 1 -1 
			 Hampshire -1 0 3 3 
			 Hertfordshire 0 0 2 -1 
			 Humberside 4 0 4 5 
			 Kent -1 3 2 4 
			 Lancashire 0 1 1 -1 
			 Leicestershire -2 0 2 0 
			 Lincolnshire 2 1 2 -1 
			 London, City of 0 0 0 0 
			 Merseyside 0 -2 7 13 
			 Metropolitan Police 20 45 19 55 
			 Norfolk 2 -2 2 3 
			 Northamptonshire 1 0 0 1 
			 Northumbria -1 0 3 1 
			 North Wales 0 0 0 0 
			 North Yorkshire 0 1 0 0 
			 Nottinghamshire 3 0 4 1 
			 South Wales 1 4 0 -6 
			 South Yorkshire 1 1 -1 6 
			 Staffordshire 4 2 3 -3 
			 Suffolk 0 1 -3 0 
			 Surrey 1 1 7 -3 
			 Sussex 4 -1 5 5 
			 Thames Valley 3 4 4 -1 
			 Warwickshire 0 -1 0 0 
			 West Mercia -2 1 1 0 
			 West Midlands 0 3 8 8 
			 West Yorkshire -1 0 -1 8 
			 Wiltshire 0 1 1 -1 
			  
			 England and Wales 39 73 84 123 
			  Note: Offences detected in any given year may have been previously recorded in an earlier year. When offences detected in the year exceed the number recorded a negative value is shown. 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 2: Undetected homicides by police force area-2002-03 to 2008-09 
			   Undetected 
			   2002-03  2003-04  2004-05  2005-06  2006-07  2007-08  2008-09 
			 Avon and Somerset 5 1 4 1 2 1 1 
			 Bedfordshire -1 0 -1 3 -4 -2 1 
			 British Transport Police -1 43 -3 2 0 1 2 
			 Cambridgeshire -2 1 1 2 0 1 2 
			 Cheshire 0 2 1 2 -2 -2 2 
			 Cleveland 2 -1 1 -3 1 0 1 
			 Cumbria 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 
			 Derbyshire 2 0 -3 0 2 0 1 
			 Devon and Cornwall 4 0 0 1 6 5 -1 
			 Dorset 0 0 2 -1 3 -1 0 
			 Durham -2 1 0 0 2 1 -1 
			 Dyfed-Powys 1 0 1 -1 0 1 -1 
			 Essex 6 3 0 9 -3 2 -1 
			 Gloucestershire 2 1 2 1 0 2 -1 
			 Greater Manchester 7 2 15 0 7 6 8 
			 Gwent 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 
			 Hampshire 9 3 4 0 5 2 0 
			 Hertfordshire 1 4 -1 4 -2 1 -1 
			 Humberside 1 5 -32 1 0 1 0 
			 Kent -1 -1 2 1 1 3 0 
			 Lancashire 4 19 -20 -1 0 0 3 
			 Leicestershire 2 2 2 1 4 -2 1 
			 Lincolnshire -3 2 0 0 1 6 4 
			 London, City of 0 0 0 0 1 -1 0 
			 Merseyside 11 9 12 -2 2 3 2 
			 Metropolitan Police 37 6 16 16 27 18 14 
			 Norfolk 2 0 -1 4 -2 1 2 
			 Northamptonshire 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 
			 Northumbria -1 2 -1 2 0 3 -2 
			 North Wales 7 -5 1 1 0 1 -3 
			 North Yorkshire -2 2 -3 0 1 -1 0 
			 Nottinghamshire 4 -1 1 -3 3 -3 2 
			 South Wales -4 3 -2 5 2 -1 1 
			 South Yorkshire 1 0 0 0 3 2 0 
			 Staffordshire 5 0 -2 1 2 1 0 
			 Suffolk 2 0 1 4 2 1 0 
			 Surrey 6 2 3 1 -1 1 -1 
			 Sussex 5 2 5 0 0 4 -1 
			 Thames Valley 7 5 -3 7 1 2 -4 
			 Warwickshire 1 1 -1 4 0 -1 -1 
			 West Mercia 0 3 2 -2 1 3 4 
			 West Midlands 15 0 -4 8 -3 6 5 
			 West Yorkshire -3 19 2 3 4 2 5 
			 Wiltshire 0 1 1 0 1 1 -1 
			 
			 England and Wales 130 137 6 71 69 69 44 
			  Note : Offences detected in any given year may have been previously recorded in an earlier year. When offences detected in the year exceed the number recorded a negative value is shown. 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 3: Undetected sexual offences by police force area-1998-99 to 2001-02 
			   Undetected 
			   1998-99  1999-2000  2000-01  2001-02 
			 Avon and Somerset 394 441 673 915 
			 Bedfordshire 260 279 250 269 
			 Cambridgeshire 241 232 278 378 
			 Cheshire 106 76 90 113 
			 Cleveland 104 93 95 87 
			 Cumbria 35 37 30 49 
			 Derbyshire 299 405 482 430 
			 Devon and Cornwall 236 162 229 484 
			 Dorset 213 225 253 316 
			 Durham 82 49 58 181 
			 Dyfed-Powys 28 23 21 28 
			 Essex 695 620 711 721 
			 Gloucestershire 172 176 189 165 
			 Greater Manchester 1,242 1,354 1,340 1,599 
			 Gwent 132 97 55 56 
			 Hampshire 189 663 794 822 
			 Hertfordshire 170 181 289 207 
			 Humberside 501 569 516 651 
			 Kent 499 486 674 702 
			 Lancashire 455 385 531 691 
			 Leicestershire 414 471 437 526 
			 Lincolnshire 129 116 123 225 
			 London, City of 20 16 9 16 
			 Merseyside 335 423 467 657 
			 Metropolitan Police 6,447 7,911 7,566 8,057 
			 Norfolk 168 196 216 281 
			 Northamptonshire 153 97 81 165 
			 Northumbria 531 607 553 649 
			 North Wales 75 72 169 262 
			 North Yorkshire 65 118 125 145 
			 Nottinghamshire 603 675 740 875 
			 South Wales 143 142 145 154 
			 South Yorkshire 223 214 229 253 
			 Staffordshire 372 735 803 815 
			 Suffolk 166 216 251 319 
			 Surrey 80 376 511 446 
			 Sussex 564 697 818 783 
			 Thames Valley 680 824 862 857 
			 Warwickshire 76 108 118 115 
			 West Mercia 206 256 248 469 
			 West Midlands 915 1099 1331 1518 
			 West Yorkshire 690 596 606 751 
			 Wiltshire 114 165 256 220 
			  
			 England and Wales 19,222 22,683 24,186 27,422 
			  Note: The data in this table are prior to the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for later years. 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 4: Undetected sexual offences by police force area - 2002/03 to 2008/09 
			   Undetected 
			   2002-03  2003-04  2004-05  2005-06  2006-07  2007-08  2008-09 
			 Avon and Somerset 1,306 1,386 1,531 1,113 1,292 1,115 1,095 
			 Bedfordshire 362 437 392 493 350 280 348 
			 British Transport Police 656 795 876 671 700 534 547 
			 Cambridgeshire 540 624 560 572 544 561 523 
			 Cheshire 386 533 585 649 589 484 433 
			 Cleveland 221 409 444 434 397 330 315 
			 Cumbria 89 163 200 179 169 211 192 
			 Derbyshire 716 700 758 754 752 745 702 
			 Devon and Cornwall 813 1,047 1,095 1,085 1,040 1,033 992 
			 Dorset 448 542 500 560 472 579 543 
			 Durham 237 129 170 453 265 285 260 
			 Dyfed-Powys 31 261 289 256 250 208 184 
			 Essex 1,023 1,136 884 973 777 815 846 
			 Gloucestershire 338 322 364 465 470 426 377 
			 Greater Manchester 1,844 2,330 2,430 2,184 2,052 2,048 1,963 
			 Gwent 153 130 248 294 335 430 375 
			 Hampshire 1,078 1,606 1,846 1,951 1,975 1,699 1,634 
			 Hertfordshire 401 435 563 565 612 523 438 
			 Humberside 857 1,136 1,072 943 928 676 665 
			 Kent 857 1,046 1,308 1,334 1260 1,140 935 
			 Lancashire 579 1,014 983 874 830 817 684 
			 Leicestershire 745 768 1,006 948 915 931 856 
			 Lincolnshire 482 501 504 441 455 424 426 
			 London, City of 20 24 34 30 32 37 17 
			 Merseyside 834 946 873 912 666 620 497 
			 Metropolitan Police 8,343 7,800 7,193 6,725 6,717 6,288 5,976 
			 Norfolk 503 533 588 573 483 447 359 
			 Northamptonshire 362 300 345 395 348 449 409 
			 Northumbria 943 990 1,018 825 735 657 582 
			 North Wales 465 404 411 388 395 408 402 
			 North Yorkshire 248 309 304 335 332 372 348 
			 Nottinghamshire 731 805 731 759 778 807 870 
			 South Wales 377 429 528 707 610 622 607 
			 South Yorkshire 524 540 890 1,043 878 782 563 
			 Staffordshire 757 766 836 865 794 701 782 
			 Suffolk 363 490 400 407 435 473 489 
			 Surrey 429 468 549 492 397 439 618 
			 Sussex 889 939 1,331 1,119 1,128 960 1,034 
			 Thames Valley 1,398 1,500 1,517 1,456 1,680 1,580 1,617 
			 Warwickshire 188 292 268 242 300 265 269 
			 West Mercia 601 672 706 576 609 740 720 
			 West Midlands 1,849 2,137 2,434 2,325 2,329 2,140 1,786 
			 West Yorkshire 1,280 1,832 1,652 1,822 1,662 1,589 1,532 
			 Wiltshire 455 404 345 351 419 404 343 
			 
			 England and Wales 35,721 40,030 41,561 40,538 39,156 37,074 35,153 
			  Note: The data in this table takes account of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for earlier years.

Croydon

Andrew Pelling: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will set out with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to the Croydon Central constituency, the effects of his Department's policies on the constituency since 2005.

Barbara Follett: This Department does not routinely collect information at constituency level but, as the constituency of Croydon, Central, falls within the local authority of Croydon we have, where relevant included information from them in this answer.
	The Neighbourhood Statistics Service provides a wide range of statistical information at parliamentary constituency level, taken from the 2001 census and other sources. This service is available on the National Statistics website at:
	http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/
	Communities and Local Government statistical publications can be found at:
	http://www.communities.gov.uk/corporate/researchandstatistics/statistics/
	This includes time series data across the Department's remit at various geographic levels.
	Details of research projects commissioned by Communities and Local Government and its predecessors are available from our Research Database (RD) at:
	http://www.rmd.communities.gov.uk/
	This includes evaluations of key policies.
	Over the last year, Communities and Local Government has:
	Played a critical role responding to the recession ensuring people, business and communities receive the practical help they need, including: helping people avoid repossession; Real Help Now; supporting the construction industry, critical regeneration projects, jobs through Future Jobs Fund; and businesses with the business rates deferral scheme.
	Set in place a platform for greater local devolution for more effective decision making through local area agreements (LAAs)-including slashing central performance standards from over 1,200 to fewer than 200.
	Continued building on this through Total Place pilots, leading innovation across public services-cutting out waste, overlap and duplication, meaning more and better quality services at less cost to the taxpayer.
	Established the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) set out in the Planning Act 2008-which will make the major infrastructure planning decisions for the country, delivering a faster, fairer and more transparent planning regime.
	Announced the £1.5 billion Housing Pledge to deliver an additional 20,000 units of affordable housing, creating 45,000 jobs in the construction industry over this year and next, including 1,300 new apprenticeship schemes.
	Last year there were 600 additional affordable homes provided by Croydon local authority. See link for further information:
	http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/housing/xls/1406085.xls
	During the period since 2005, the Department's achievements include:
	Working with local housing authorities to reduce the number of people accepted as owed a main homelessness duty by 43 per cent. since 2005-06, and 72 per cent. since the peak in 2003-the lowest level since the late seventies-through greater emphasis on the prevention of homelessness.
	In 2008-09, there were 449 households accepted as being homeless and in priority need in Croydon local authority compared to 581 households accepted as being homeless and in priority need in 2005-06. See link for further information:
	http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/housing/xls/141476.xls
	Launching the Local Government White Paper 'Strong and Prosperous Communities' which set out a new stage of public sector reform, significantly strengthening leadership and devolving power to local government as well as providing a major expansion of opportunities for local people to influence local decision-making and improve their lives.
	Helping reduce accidental fire-related deaths-the lowest level since 1959.
	In 2008-09, there were 30 accidental fire related deaths in Greater London, compared to 47 accidental fire relate deaths in 2005/06. At the local level, fire deaths may fluctuate within a general declining national trend. See link for further information (Table 4b):
	http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/statistics/xls/1403049.xls
	Reducing by 1.2 million the number of non decent social homes As at the 1st April 2009, there were 1,088 non-decent dwellings in Croydon local authority, compared to 2,463 non-decent dwellings at 1 April 2006 See links for further information:
	 2008-09 data
	http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/housing/xls/1393612.xls
	 2005-06 data
	http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/housing/xls/153226.xls
	Investing through the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund £1.87 billion for England's 88 most deprived local authorities-leading to real positive change.

Departmental Internet

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many people his Department employs to maintain its social media and networking sites; and at what cost in the last 12 months.

Barbara Follett: The Department's social media channels are maintained as part of the routine business of its web team. This has eight full-time, and one part-time, member of staff. The cost in salary terms, for maintaining these social media channels has not been disaggregated but only forms a small proportion of the team's work load.

Post Offices: Bank Services

Gordon Prentice: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent discussions he has had with the Post Office on the possible establishment of a Post Bank; and if he will make a statement.

Ian Lucas: I refer my hon. Friend to the written statement that my right hon. Friend the Minister of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (Mr. McFadden) made to the House on 29 March 2010,  Official Report, columns 73-74WS, on the issue of Post Office Banking. This sets out the Government's vision for the future of financial services at the Post Office. The Government's response to the Post Office Banking Consultation, published on the same day, details how the Government and the Post Office will work together to deliver a greatly expanded role for Post Office financial services. Copies of the Government's Response to the Post Office Banking Consultation are available in the Libraries of the House.

Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

Geoffrey Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 
	(1)  what assessment he has made of the likely contribution to the effectiveness of his Department's bovine tuberculosis policy of eliminating that disease in wildlife; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  whether he plans to take steps to  (a) eliminate and  (b) reduce the incidence of bovine tuberculosis in wildlife.

Jim Fitzpatrick: The key issue with bovine Tuberculosis (bTB) in wildlife is when the disease is transmitted to livestock.
	The Veterinary Medicines Directorate issued a licence for the injectable badger vaccine on 24 March 2010. Steps are being taken to use this vaccine in badgers through the Badger Vaccine Deployment Project, which will assess and maximise the viability of using the injectable badger vaccine and to help us move towards the long term goal of an oral badger vaccine. Vaccination is not 100 per cent. effective in terms of protection. As with many other disease control strategies, vaccination is a risk reduction measure most likely to be successful in controlling bTB when considered alongside other disease control measures and not in isolation.
	Government's policy is that no licences will be issued for culling badgers for the purpose of preventing the spread of bTB in cattle, although we remain open to the possibility of revisiting this policy under exceptional circumstances, or if new scientific evidence were to become available.

Bovine Tuberculosis: South West

Geoffrey Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many farms in  (a) the South West and  (b) Torridge and West Devon constituency were under bovine tuberculosis restrictions on the latest date for which figures are available.

Jim Fitzpatrick: The latest data from VetNet shows that there were 2,409 herds under restriction in the Government office for the south-west county region (Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Isles of Scilly, Somerset, Wiltshire) during the 12 months up to 31 December 2009. Of this figure 1,017 were from Devon.
	DEFRA are unable to give data for areas smaller than county level and are therefore unable to provide data for Torridge and West Devon.
	Please note that data downloaded from the VetNet system are provisional and subject to change as more data become available.

Bovine Tuberculosis: South West

Geoffrey Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many cattle in  (a) the South West and  (b) Torridge and West Devon constituency have been slaughtered under his Department's bovine tuberculosis prevention policy in the last 12 months.

Jim Fitzpatrick: There were 16,230 cattle slaughtered under bovine tuberculosis measures in the Government office for the south-west county region (Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Isles of Scilly, Somerset, Wiltshire) during the 12 months up to 31 December 2009. Of this number 6,863 were from Devon.
	DEFRA are unable to give data for areas smaller than county level and are therefore unable to provide data for Torridge and West Devon.
	Please note that data downloaded from the VetNet system are provisional and subject to change as more data become available.

Croydon

Andrew Pelling: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Croydon Central constituency, the effects on that constituency of his Department's policies since 2005.

Dan Norris: Due to the broad nature of the question and the wide range of DEFRA policies implemented in Croydon Central, it is not possible to provide a detailed answer in the form requested.
	Croydon Central is obliged through statute to comply with central Government legislation. DEFRA's policy responsibilities are summarised in its departmental strategic objectives (DSOs) that have been agreed with the Treasury:
	To promote a society that is adapting to the effects of climate change, through a national programme of action and a contribution to international action.
	To promote a healthy, resilient, productive and diverse natural environment.
	To promote sustainable, low carbon and resource efficient patterns of consumption and production.
	To promote an economy and a society that are resilient to environmental risk.
	To champion sustainable development.
	To promote a thriving farming and food sector with an improving net environmental impact.
	To encourage a sustainable, secure and healthy food supply.
	To provide socially and economically sustainable rural communities.
	To be a respected Department delivering efficient and high quality services and outcomes.
	DEFRA publishes annual departmental reports which set out progress against its Public Service Agreement targets and DSOs. The 2009 Report is available at:
	http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/about/reports/documents/2009-deptreport.pdf
	Past reports are available online in the National Archives.
	For information on a specific DEFRA policy in Croydon Central, the Government Office for the South East is able to provide information on implementation and the benefits to the area.

Food: Marketing

Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will take steps to require more accurate information on the country of origin to be displayed on food products; and if he will make a statement.

Gillian Merron: I have been asked to reply.
	Origin labelling is required on certain foods and in cases where not to inform the consumer of origin may mislead them. In cases where voluntary origin information is provided this must be accurate and the Food Standards Agency has had best practice guidance in place since 2002 recommending labelling formats that are meaningful to consumers.
	The Government have been encouraging even greater clarity, an example of which is the new voluntary industry Code of Practice on the labelling of pork and pork products which resulted from the Government's Pig Meat Supply Chain Task Force - a supply chain wide group, facilitated by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
	In addition, origin labelling rules are being discussed in the European Union as part of a proposal for a new Food Information Regulation. The Government are pressing in these discussions for greater clarity of information when origin claims are made.

Potatoes: Morocco

James Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 
	(1)  what discussions he has had with  (a) his counterparts in devolved administrations,  (b) the European Commission and  (c) the government of Morocco on the recent impounding of seed potatoes exported from the UK to Morocco and the rejection of consignments due to contamination with common scab and silver scurf; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  what recent discussions he has had on the dispute between the EU and Morocco on the import of tomatoes and the imposition by Morocco of trade restrictions on the export of seed potatoes to that country.

Jim Fitzpatrick: There have been discussions at official level between England, Scotland and Northern Ireland about the Moroccan rejection of consignments of seed potatoes from the UK. The problems have arisen because of a change in interpretation and inspection practices in Morocco regarding potato skin problems of traded seed potatoes. Although in making these changes the Moroccan authorities have acted within their sovereign rights, it is disappointing that there was no prior notification.
	Officials have visited Morocco to discuss the problem and the British embassy and EU missions to Morocco have been involved. The European Commission and officials from member states have discussed the issue with Morocco in the margins of an international meeting and have agreed to establish a working group to discuss and agree consistent application of inspection methods in future years.
	I am not aware of any current trade dispute between EU and Morocco in respect of the import of tomatoes. This trade is carefully monitored by the European Commission.

River Lymington: Ferries

Desmond Swayne: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 
	(1)  if he will replace Wightlink as the competent authority in the Lymington River for the purposes of constructing an impact assessment of the new ferries; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  when he plans to respond to the e-mail from Michael Derrick of the Lymington River Association on the position of Wightlink as the competent authority for ferry operations.

Huw Irranca-Davies: There are no provisions in the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010, which came into force on 1 April, that enable a competent authority to be replaced.
	Officials wrote to Michael Derrick on 6 April to confirm this.

Smuggling: Fuel Oil

Owen Paterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people have been convicted of offences relating to  (a) fuel smuggling and  (b) fuel laundering in Northern Ireland in the last 12 months.

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: I have been asked to reply.
	In 2008-09, 10 people were convicted of hydrocarbon oil offences in Northern Ireland. The legislation that covers the evasion or attempted evasion of duty on hydrocarbon oil is the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979, and this covers both fuel smuggling and fuel laundering offences.
	Tackling fuel crime is a key priority for the Government. HM Revenue and Customs works in close partnership with other law enforcement agencies within the Organised Crime Task Force to disrupt fuel smugglers and launderers, bring them before the courts and confiscate their illegally-acquired assets.

Croydon

Andrew Pelling: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if she will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Croydon Central constituency, the effects on that constituency of her Department's policies since 2005.

Jonathan R Shaw: DWP lead the Government's response to some of the biggest issues facing the country-welfare and pension reform-and are a key player in tackling child poverty(1). As the biggest delivery Department in the UK, DWP makes a difference to millions of people every day, helping them to lead safer, fairer and more rewarding lives that are free from poverty. We want to give people more choice and control over their lives and are committed to providing greater choice and personalised support to everyone who needs it so they have the opportunity to get into and remain in work. We believe that work works. Even in economically challenging times we know that work works for the most vulnerable and the disadvantaged.
	 Support to find work
	Through Jobcentre Plus, we are promoting work as the best form of welfare for people of working age. Since February 2005, the number of people unemployed in Croydon, Central has increased by 66 per cent. to 3,365 and the number unemployed for more than one year has increased by 70 per cent. to 375. From August 2005 to August 2009 the number of lone parents claiming income support in Croydon, Central has fallen by 15 per cent. to 2,720.
	Our new deals have helped lone parents, the young unemployed, the long-term unemployed, disabled people, the over 50s and partners of unemployed people to move from benefit into work. Since their inception over 2.2 million people in Great Britain have found work with the support of the new deal, and 2,330 have been helped in Croydon, Central.
	 Support for children
	We introduced a target to halve child poverty by 2010-11 on the way to eradicating it by 2020. Poverty is measured using a headline indicator of the proportion of children in households with an income below 60 per cent. of contemporary household median income before housing costs. This is in line with international best practice.
	Statistics on the numbers of children living in poverty are not available at the constituency level.
	 Support for older people
	Since 1997 our strategy has been to target help on the poorest pensioners while providing a solid foundation of support for all.
	This year we will be spending over £13 billion more on pensioners than if we had continued with the policies that were in place in 1997. Around half of that money will go to the poorest third of pensioners.
	In 1997 the poorest pensioners, who received income support, lived on £69 a week (£98 in today's prices). Today pension credit, which was introduced in 2003, means no pensioner needs to live on less than £130 a week, £198.45 for couples. As of August 2009, 4,860 pensioners in Croydon, Central are benefiting from pension credit.
	In 2007-08 there were 900,000 fewer pensioners living in relative poverty in UK compared to 1998-99 (measured as below 60 per cent. of contemporary median household income after housing costs).
	Statistics on the proportion of pensioners living in relative poverty are not available at constituency level, and Government office region level data are only available as three-year averages. The London Government office region can however be split into inner and outer London. The latest data for outer London cover the period 2005-08, and show that around 100,000 pensioners (or 19 per cent.) are in poverty (measured as below 60 per cent. of contemporary median household income after housing costs)(2).
	Pensioners in the UK also benefit from a range of additional support such as the winter fuel payment which for winter 2009-10 is worth £250 for households with someone aged between 60-79 and £400 for households with someone aged 80 or over. These payments provide vital reassurance to older people that they can afford to turn up their heating during cold weather. Prior to winter 1997-98 less than £60 million per year was spent helping pensioners meet their fuel bills-we now spend around £2.7 billion on winter fuel payments alone. In winter 2008-09 (the last winter for which information is available) 19,360 people aged 60 and over benefited from winter fuel payments in Croydon, Central.
	We have also taken steps to strengthen and protect the private pensions system to ensure people can continue to have confidence to save for their future through the establishment of the Pensions Protection Fund, the Financial Assistance Scheme and a more powerful and proactive pensions regulator.
	The protection system ensures that, unlike in 1997, people are not left without a pension even in the event that their employer becomes insolvent.
	As at end of February a total of 516 people in the London Government office region are receiving compensation from the Pension Protection Fund (data not available at constituency level).(3)
	We have also taken forward a radical package of pension reforms in the Pensions Acts of 2007 and 2008 which will deliver a fairer and more generous state pension and extend the opportunity of workplace pension saving to millions, many for the first time.
	The state pension reforms begin to come into effect from 2010 and will mean around three quarters of women reaching state pension age in 2010 are expected to qualify for a full basic state pension compared to half without reform.
	 Support for disabled people and carers
	Since 2001, we have significantly extended and improved civil rights for disabled people in areas such as employment, education, access to goods and services and transport. Disabled people in Croydon, Central will have benefited from these improvements. The Welfare Reform Act 2009 contains powers to increase choice and control for disabled adults, including disabled parents who are entitled to state support, enabling them to choose how certain state support is used to meet their individual needs. This will be trailblazed in eight local authority sites from late 2010. Older and less well off carers have gained extra help through the provisions within the National Carers Strategy.
	(1) The Department for Work and Pensions was created in 2001 and so information relates to the Department and its predecessors.
	(2) Numbers arc shown rounded to the nearest 100,000. Percentages are shown rounded to the nearest whole percentage point.
	(3) Regional information about assistance payments received by members from the Financial Assistance Scheme could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Departmental ICT

Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether her Department has issued letters containing incorrect information to recipients of  (a) basic state pension and  (b) child benefit since 22 January 2010.

Angela Eagle: The Department for Work and Pensions and the Pension Disability and Carers Service write to vast numbers of our pensioner customers each day and we do our best to ensure that each and every letter is accurate. However, it is inevitable that from time-to-time errors do occur; when they do, we do our best to provide the correct information as soon as possible after the error is identified.
	Child benefit is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Pensioners: Means-tested Benefits

Theresa May: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what percentage of those over the age of  (a) 60,  (b) 65 and  (c) 70 years were in receipt of means-tested benefits in each year since 1997.

Angela Eagle: holding answer 10 March 2010
	As a claimant can be in receipt of more than one benefit, and the total number of claimants receiving one or more means tested benefits is not available, it is not possible to derive the number or percentage of people receiving means tested benefits from the available information.

Sierra Leone: Female Genital Mutilation

Denis MacShane: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development pursuant to the answer of 29 March 2010,  Official Report, columns 739-40W, on Sierra Leone: overseas aid, what estimate he has made of the effect of the programme funded by his Department to improve the reproductive health of women in Sierra Leone on the level of female genital mutilation of women aged between 15 and 49 years old in that country.

Gareth Thomas: The Department for International Development's (DFID) country programme in Sierra Leone has a Special Strategic Objective of reducing maternal mortality. The £16 million programme referred to contributes directly to the achievement of this objective through a significant contribution to the Government of Sierra Leone's Reproductive and Child Health Strategy.
	My answer of 29 March 2010,  Official Report, columns 739-40W, sets out the specific activities which DFID undertakes in Sierra Leone in relation to female genital mutilation.

Autism: Children

Charles Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what statutory duties there are on participants in the commissioning process for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services to take account of the needs of children with an autistic spectrum disorder.

Phil Hope: From 1 April 2008, local authorities and primary care trusts have a statutory duty to produce a joint strategic needs assessment to address the health care needs of their local populations to inform the strategic planning and commissioning process.
	Under the new Statutory Guidance on Children's Trusts, issued on 22 March 2010, the Children's Trust Board becomes responsible from 1 April 2010 for producing the children and young people's plan (CYPP), a joint strategy which sets out how the partners of the Children' Trust Board will cooperate to improve the well-being of children and young people within the local area, working together to commission services to address local identified needs. Each plan is required to include an outline of the key actions, as identified by the needs assessment, planned to achieve the outcome for children and young people who:
	have special educational needs within the meaning of section 312 of the Education Act; and/or
	are disabled within the meaning of section 1 of the Disability Discrimination Act.
	This would include listing the actions that will be taken to address the needs of children and young people with autistic spectrum disorder.

Cancer: Shropshire

Owen Paterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time is for cancer treatments in Shropshire County Primary Care Trust.

Ann Keen: Statistics on average waiting times between decision to treat and treatment for cancer are not collected centrally.
	The cancer waiting time standard of a maximum wait of 31 days from decision to treat, to first cancer treatment was introduced for all patients and all treatment modalities from December 2005. Statistics showing overall performance are published on a quarterly basis on the Department's website at:
	www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Statistics/Performancedataandstatistics/HospitalWaitingTimesandListStatistics/CancerWaitingTimes/index.htm
	The number and percentage of patients receiving first treatment for cancer within one month of decision to treat, for acute trusts in Shropshire, as at quarter 3 of 2009-10 is shown in the following table.
	
		
			  Trust  Number of patients  Percentage of patients 
			 Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust 3 100 
			 Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust 325 95.3 
			  Notes: 1. Statistics on average waiting times are not collected centrally. Data shown relate to compliance with the two-month waiting time standard from urgent general practitioner referral for suspected cancer to first treatment. 2. Low number of cases are likely to be explained by the specialist nature of particular trusts which would not normally routinely treat cancer patients. Reported compliance is more prone to fluctuation where numbers are relatively low.  Source: Cancer Waiting Times database.

Health Services: Isle of Man

Andrew MacKinlay: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  whether the negotiations between his Department's officials and the government of the Isle of Man on the bilateral agreement on health services of 30 March 2010 included representatives of  (a) the Ministry of Justice and  (b) health ministries of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  whether the negotiations between his Department's officials and the government of the Isle of Man on the bilateral agreement on health services of 30 March 2010 relate to the whole of the United Kingdom or to England only; and if he will make a statement.

Gillian Merron: Negotiations, which were based on a United Kingdom wide approach, did not include representatives from the devolved Administrations, nor the Ministry of Justice. However, following negotiations, the Department of Health will be consulting with the devolved Administrations and the Ministry of Justice, before finalising the terms of any new reciprocal healthcare agreement with the Isle of Man.

Medical Records: Databases

Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department has spent on commissioning reports on the Summary Care Record of University College London; how many such reports his Department has commissioned to date; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the most recent report.

Mike O'Brien: The Department initially commissioned an independent evaluation of the summary care record early adopter programme. This work, carried out by a team at University College London (UCL), ran between May 2007 and April 2008. It resulted in two published reports, the Summary Care Record Independent Evaluation, and Evaluation of Data Quality Standards within the Summary Care Record. Both reports have been published and are available at:
	www.ucl.ac.uk/dome/openlearning/research
	Further research has been commissioned from UCL, to assess the implementation and impact of the summary care record and HealthSpace, and to illuminate ongoing learning and lessons as summary care records begin to be implemented more widely. The outcome of this work is currently undergoing quality assurance and peer review and is due for publication later this year.
	The cost of the commissioned work is £272,200 for the first study and £723,400 for the current study, a total of £995,600.

Mentally Ill: Nottinghamshire

Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people are detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 in Nottinghamshire  (a) in total and  (b) in secure wards; and what the equivalent figures were in 2005.

Phil Hope: Information on the number of people who spent time formally detained in a national health service hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983 during the year has been set out in the following table. This includes people who were detained in hospital during the year but whose formal admission was in a previous year.
	These figures are taken from Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust's mental health minimum dataset annual returns. They exclude patients detained only in high secure beds at Rampton Hospital, or by the Trust's child and adolescent mental health service. The figures cannot be broken down between secure and other wards, and equivalent information is not available for independent hospitals in Nottinghamshire.
	
		
			  Number of in - patients detained in hospital for Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust 2005-06 and 2008-09 
			   Number of people formally detained 
			 2005-06 683 
			 2008-09 628 
			  Notes: 1. Each person is counted only once. If a person was detained more than once in a year they are still counted once only. 2. "Formally detained" refers to people who spent at least one day formally retained in hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983 (or previous related legislation). 3. Background information for the Mental Health Act 1983 can be found via the link for the Mental Health Act Code of Practice at:www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4005756 4. The results shown in the answer are published and available online at:www.mhmdsonline.ic.nhs.uk 5. The Mental Health Bulletin 2003-2009 Chapter 2 of the Mental Health Bulletin provides commentary on these statistics:www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/mhbmhmds0809  Source:  Mental Health Minimum Dataset annual returns

Midwives: Shropshire

Owen Paterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many midwives have been employed by Shropshire NHS Trust in each year since 1997.

Ann Keen: The information is not available in the format requested. The number of registered midwives employed by the Shrewsbury and Telford hospitals NHS trust in each year since 1997 has been set out in the following table:
	
		
			  NHS hospital and community health services: Registered midwives in the Shrewsbury and Telford  H ospitals NHS  T rust, as at 30 September each year 
			   Headcount 
			 1997 194 
			 1998 208 
			 1999 210 
			 2000 209 
			 2001 209 
			 2002 225 
			 2003 237 
			 2004 232 
			 2005 249 
			 2006 228 
			 2007 234 
			 2008 236 
			 2009 217 
			  Notes: 1. Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust was formed in 2003 from a complete merger of Princess Royal Hospital NHS Trust and Royal Shrewsbury Hospitals NHS Trust. Figures from 1997-2003 are an aggregate of these predecessor organisations. 2.  Data Quality: The Information Centre for Health and Social care seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published. This is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses.  Source: The Information Centre for health and social care: Non-Medical Workforce Census.

Patients: Death

Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to monitor hospital standardised mortality ratios in each NHS hospital trust.

Mike O'Brien: Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (HSMRs) for each acute hospital trust in England are published on the NHS Choices website and are updated regularly. The Care Quality Commission has an ongoing programme of review of HSMRs, alongside a range of other data, such as readmission rates, infection rates and reported incidents, as well as information from inspections, the public and other organisations, as part of its system for the registration of national health service trusts.

Prescriptions: Shropshire

Owen Paterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people resident in Shropshire have bought a prescription prepay certificate in each year since 1997.

Mike O'Brien: National Health Service Help with Health Costs (NHS HwHC) do not hold pre-payment certificate information at primary care trust or county level. The information is available at national level for England which has been set out in the following table.
	NHS HwHC also do not hold records for the number of pre-payment certificates sold since 1997. Details of certificates issued are retained for seven years. The information available covers April 2003 to February 2010.
	
		
			  Number of prescription pre-payment certificates issued in England 
			   Duration of certificates issued  
			  Financial year  Three-month  Four-month  12-month  Total 
			 2003-04 - 572,863 461,614 1,034,477 
			 2004-05 - 491,576 517,882 1,009,458 
			 2005-06 - 638,413 524,232 1,162,645 
			 2006-07 - 650,782 520,449 1,171,231 
			 2007-08 474,570 176,503 593,507 1,244,580 
			 2008-09 730,592 - 652,870 1,383,462 
			 2009-10 648,518 - 588,820 1,237,338 
			 Total 1,853,680 2,530,137 3,859,374 8,243,191 
			  Notes: 1. 2009-10 only covers 11 months as March 2010 data are not yet available. 2. Between 2004 and June 2007, pre-payment certificates were available to cover a period of four months or 12 months. Since 1 July 2007 the four-month pre-payment certificate has been replaced with certificates covering three months. 3. The summary information used is available only by financial year.  Source: Summary of information provided from NHS HwHC prescription pre-payment certificate database.

Social Investment Wholesale Bank

Mark Lazarowicz: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office with which projects the Government is piloting social impact bonds; and for how long in each case.

Liam Byrne: I have been asked to reply.
	The Budget announced its support for the first social impact bond (SIB) pilots to help investment in long-term initiatives and support preventative action. The pilots are at different stages of development. The MOJ pilot will aim to reduce reoffending rates in HMP Peterborough and the pilot will last for six years. CLG are working with Leeds city council and NHS Leeds to enable them to use a SIB approach to reduce health and social cares costs among older people. Given this work is at an early stage, the timeframe has not been set. Similarly Bradford metropolitan district council are considering applying this model as part of their involvement in the Government's Total Place programme. Again, no timeframe has yet been set.

Building Schools for the Future Programme: Leicestershire

Andy Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families for what reasons Leicestershire county council's bid for funding from Building Schools for the Future was not recommended by Partnership for Schools in the most recent funding round; and on what date his Department wrote to Leicestershire county council to inform them of these reasons.

Vernon Coaker: Partnerships for Schools (PfS), as the delivery agent for Building Schools for the Future (BSF), is responsible for discussions with local authorities about applications to join the BSF programme. PfS wrote to Leicestershire county council on 8 March 2010 to provide feedback on why the council would not yet be invited to join.
	Local authorities are prioritised on the need for BSF investment but must also demonstrate that they are ready and able, and have all the elements in place to deliver their BSF project. As well as assessing submissions to enter on a case-by-case basis, bids are also compared against each other so that the most ready are selected.
	The assessment of Leicestershire's county council, "Readiness to Deliver" submission concluded that further work is needed in some key areas before the authority can be deemed ready to enter BSF.

Children's Workforce Development Council: Finance

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding his Department allocated to the Children's Workforce Development Council for  (a) 2004-05,  (b) 2005-06,  (c) 2006-07,  (d) 2008-09 and  (e) 2009-10.

Dawn Primarolo: holding answer 18 March 2010
	The Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) was established in 2005. There was therefore no funding allocation for the 2004-05 financial year. The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) funding allocations for each of CWDC's first three financial years, when it was an employer- led workforce reform body were; 2005-06, £960,000; 2006-07, £31,921,000 million and 2007-08, £55,181,000 million. The funding allocations for the next two years, when CWDC became an executive non departmental public body of the DCSF and experienced significant expansion to its remitted activities were; 2008-09, £82,454,000 million and 2009-10, £108,228,000 million.

Departmental Publicity

Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department has spent on  (a) Ministerial photoshoots and  (b) production of videos in which Ministers appear in the last three years for which figures are available.

Vernon Coaker: In the last three years for which figures are available, this Department and its predecessor, the Department for Education and Skills, spent the following on  (a) ministerial photoshoots:
	
		
			   £ 
			 2006-07 2949.88 
			 2007-08 2614.4 
			 2008-09 1362.73 
		
	
	and  (b) production of videos in which Ministers appear:
	
		
			   £ 
			 2006-07 104,091.89 
			 2007-08 74,231.92 
			 2008-09 89,099.21

Departmental Taxis

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many miles  (a) Ministers and  (b) officials in his Department and its predecessors have travelled by taxi in the course of their official duties in each year since 1997; and at what cost to the public purse in each such year.

Vernon Coaker: The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) was established under the machinery of Government on 28 June 2007, therefore the response covers its predecessor the Department for Education and Skills (DFES) which was established on 8 June 2001.
	Accounting records are not available for mileage covered by taxis for both Ministers and Officials.
	No taxi expenditure has been recorded against Ministers use of taxis within the DCSF's accounting system or its predecessor the DFES. However, the Government Car and Despatch Agency (GCDA) an executive agency of the Department for Transport supplies official cars for Ministers during the course of their official duties. Unfortunately, GCDA are only able to supply data for the latest financial year of 2008-09. Data for earlier years is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate costs.
	Due to the accounting system used by the Department prior to 2004 only being able to hold a number of charges under one account code of "travel and subsistence" individual charges were not specific to the type of travel.
	
		
			  £ 
			  Financial years  Ministers official car costs  Officials taxi costs 
			 2009-10 17,679 341,428.16 
			 2008-09 491,924 81,056.00 
			 2007-08 - 67,596.00 
			 2006-07 - 95,382.00 
			 2007-06 - 51,749.00 
			 2006-05 - 564.90 
		
	
	Expenditure, however, has to be incurred in accordance with the principles of "Managing Public Money" and the Treasury handbook on "regularity and propriety".

GCE A-Level: Disadvantaged

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 10 February 2010,  Official Report, column 1088W, on free school meals: mathematics, if he will provide the information from the earliest year in the last 30 years for which data relating to ethnicity and eligibility for free school meals is available.

Vernon Coaker: Full information for the whole cohort of A-level students is not available, because the information comes from two distinct sources. The information the Department has readily available is for schools.
	In the 2002-03 academic year, the number of white males eligible for free school meals attending maintained(1) schools and non maintained special schools who achieved an A grade in GCE A-Level Further Mathematics was less than five. The number of white females eligible for free school meals attending maintained(1) schools and non-maintained special schools who achieved an A grade in GCE A-level Further Mathematics was also less than five. The exact figures cannot be given to preserve confidentiality.
	(1) Maintained Schools including City Technology Colleges

GCSE and GCE A-level

Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many schools achieved GCSE results above the national average in the most recent period for which figures are available; and how many such schools in  (a) Leicester,  (b) the East Midlands and  (c) England are scheduled to be closed in 2010.

Vernon Coaker: In maintained schools in England in 2009, 50.7 per cent. of pupils at the end of key stage 4 achieved five or more GCSEs at grade A*-C or the equivalent, including English and mathematics GCSEs.
	The following table counts the number of schools performing above this average.
	
		
			   Leicester  East Midlands  England 
			 Number of maintained schools performing above average 7 109 1,436 
			 of which have been approved for closure in 2010 0 0 1 
			  Notes: 1. The seven schools in Leicester are included in the count of schools in east midlands, which are included in the England count. 2. The school approved for closure is in Rochdale local authority and is to address an issue of surplus places there.

GCSE and GCE A-level

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what percentage of eligible pupils received five A* to C grades at GCSE including English and mathematics but excluding equivalents in  (a) local authority schools and  (b) academies where the per capita spend per pupil was (i) up to £4,500, (ii) from £4,501 to £5,000, (iii) from £5,001 to £5,500 and  (d) more than £5,500 in the most recent year for which figures are available.

Vernon Coaker: The following tables provide a breakdown of the number and percentage of pupils achieving five or more A* to C grades in their GCSEs by the end of Key Stage 4, banded by expenditure per pupil in local authority maintained secondary schools and academies respectively.
	
		
			  Number and percentage of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 achieving five GCSEs at grade A* to C, excluding equivalents, including English and maths GCSEs, banded by expenditure( 1, 2)  per pupil( 3)  in authority maintained secondary schools 
			  Expenditure based on cash terms figures as reported by local authorities as at 10 March 2010 
			  Expenditure per pupil( 3)  Number of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 achieving five or more GCSEs at grade A* to C, excluding equivalents, including English and maths GCSEs( 4)  Percentage of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 achieving five or more GCSEs at grade A* to C, excluding equivalents, including English and maths GCSEs( 4) 
			 Less than or equal to £4,500 112,706 60.8 
			 More than £4,500 and less than or equal to £5,000 87,247 51.7 
			 More than £5,000 and less than or equal to £5,500 37,604 42.1 
			 More than £5,500 36,697 34.8 
			 (1) School based expenditure includes only expenditure incurred directly by the schools. This includes the pay of teachers and school-based support staff, school premises costs, books and equipment, and certain other supplies and services, less any capital items funded from recurrent spending and income from sales, fees and charges and rents and rates. This excludes the central cost of support services such as home to school transport, local authority administration and the financing of capital expenditure. (2) Total expenditure is based upon the financial year 2008-09. (3) Pupil numbers include all those pupils attending maintained establishments and are drawn from the 2009 DCSF Annual Schools Census. (4) Including attempts and achievements in previous academic years  Notes: 1. These figures cover only maintained schools and only those for which both 2008-09 financial data and 2009 academic achievement data are available. 2. The number of schools within each banding (ascending) are 934, 857, 479 and 686 respectively.  Source: Financial data are taken from local authorities' 2008-09 Children, Schools and Families Outturn Statements (formally section 52) submitted to the DCSF while pupil numbers are drawn from the DCSF January 2009 Schools Census. GCSE details are from the Achievement and Attainment Tables (AAT). 
		
	
	
		
			  Number and percentage of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 achieving five A* to C grades at GCSE, excluding equivalents, including English and maths GCSEs, banded by expenditure( 1)  per pupil in academies( 2) 
			  Expenditure( 1)  per pupil  Number of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 achieving five or more GCSEs at grade A* to C, excluding equivalents, including English and maths GCSEs( 3)  Percentage of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 achieving five or more GCSEs at grade A* to C, excluding equivalents, including English and maths GCSEs( 3) 
			 Less than or equal to £4,500 0 0.0 
			 More than £4,500 and less than or equal to £5,000 972 42.3 
			 More than £5,000 and less than or equal to £5,500 1,400 30.4 
			 More than £5,500 4,308 33.6 
			 (1) Academy allocations include a VAT grant and a Local Authority Central Services Equivalent Grant (LACSEG), local authority maintained schools do not receive these grants. Academies receive a VAT grant because they incur VAT on purchases and services, whereas local authority maintained schools in general do not or can reclaim it. LACSEG is paid to academies to enable them to purchase/provide services normally funded and provided to maintained schools from the local authority's central budget, which an academy does not have access to. (2) The number of schools within each banding (ascending) are 1, 11, 29 and 81 respectively. (3) Including attempts and achievements in previous academic years.  Source: GCSE details are from the Achievement and Attainment Tables (AAT). 
		
	
	The Government and local authorities allocate significant additional funds to schools that support deprived pupils, who tend to achieve less well than their more advantaged peers. This is reflected in the data. It remains a high Government priority, as set out in "Investing for the future, protecting the front line: school funding 2011-13" (published on 15 March 2010), to ensure that additional funds go towards children who need extra support to reach their potential, so that the gap between the attainment of disadvantaged children and the rest continues to narrow. Further, many local authorities choose to give additional funding to schools based on low attainment or low prior attainment.

GCSE and GCE A-level

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 22 February 2010,  Official Report, column 309W, on GCSE A-level, how many white  (a) boys and  (b) girls eligible for free school meals achieved three A-grades at A-level in the earliest year for which figures are available.

Iain Wright: holding answer 1 March 2010
	2003 is the earliest year of which figures are available.
	36 (3.8 per cent.) white British boys and 58 (4.7 per cent.) white British girls eligible for free school meals achieved three or more A grades at A-level. Percentages indicated are of white British students eligible for free school meals of the appropriate gender who were entered for at least one GCE/VCE/Applied A Level and Double Awards in 2003.
	The figures relate to 16 to 18-year-olds (age at start of academic year, i.e. 31 August 2002) in maintained schools only who were eligible for free school meals. The figures do not include the achievement of students in further education sector colleges previously eligible for free school meals.

GCSE and GCE A-level

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 
	(1)  how many pupils in  (a) comprehensive and  (b) independent schools in each constituency were entered for GCSE examinations in (i) physics, (ii) biology and (iii) chemistry in the latest year for which figures are available;
	(2)  how many and what proportion of 16 to 18 year old candidates in each constituency entered for level 3 qualifications at least equivalent to one GCE or Applied GCE A level in  (a) comprehensive schools,  (b) all maintained schools and further education sector colleges and  (c) all independent schools achieved three or more A grades at GCE/Applied GCE A level and double awards in (i) 1997 and (ii) the latest year for which figures are available.

Vernon Coaker: The information requested on the number of pupils at the end of key stage 4 attending  (a) comprehensive and  (b) independent schools entered for GCSEs in (i) physics, (ii) biology and (iii) chemistry by parliamentary constituency in 2008/09 has been placed in the House of Commons Library.
	The information available on the proportion and number of 16-18 year old pupils in each parliamentary constituency entered for GCE/Applied GCE A Levels and Double Awards in  (a) comprehensive schools,  (b) all maintained schools and further education sector colleges and  (c) all independent schools who achieved three or more A grades at GCE/Applied GCE A Level and Double Awards in 2005/06 and 2008/09 has been placed in the House of Commons Library. Information for earlier years can only be produced at disproportionate cost.

Sixth Form Education: Torbay

Adrian Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which schools in Torbay constituency received less funding for sixth form places in their final yearly allocations for 2009-10 than was indicated in their provisional funding figures.

Iain Wright: All schools (and, indeed, all other providers) have been funded in their 2009/10 allocations to at least the level of recruitment indicated in their provisional funding figures, as discussed with the LSC in early March 2009.
	On 31 March last year, the Department made an interim allocation consistent with the budget set out in the LSC's annual statement of priorities in November 2008. Providers were therefore notified of a minimum working budget by the 31 March 2009 with which to plan for the forthcoming academic year.
	These allocation figures differed from the provisional funding figures that providers had discussed with the LSC at the beginning of March, which were meant to be indicative of the likely level of demand coming through from young people. It was clear that this was well above the budget published the previous November. However, discussions were ongoing across Government at that time on what extra financial support was needed to provide for the increased learner demand providers indicated they could deliver. This additional funding was found and announced in Budget 2009, which provided for a further 54,500 learners in 2009/10 than planned. All providers were notified of their revised allocation, to at least the level of recruitment indicated in their provisional funding figures, as soon as was possible following Budget 2009.
	The following tables set out the funding and learner allocations for the sixth forms in the Torbay constituency. All the sixth forms learner allocations matched the provisional allocations and all the funding allocations increased from the 31 March 2009 allocations post Budget 2009. Four of the sixth forms saw increases on their provisional allocation in their final funding allocations. Two schools(1) did however see slight reductions from their provisional allocations, on account of the necessary changed approach in the application of transitional protection between the two allocation notices. The reductions were 1.5 per cent. and 0.4 per cent. of their provisional allocation. This was to avoid volatility in the data between years producing significantly different out turns in funding levels.
	
		
			  Torbay constituency provisional and final allocation figures 
			   Provisional funding allocations for 2009/10  (£ million)  Allocations sent on 31 March 2009 (£ million)  Final allocations for 2009/10  (£ million) 
			 Torquay Grammar School for Girls 1.135 1.056 (1)1.118 (1.5 % reduction) 
			 Churston Ferrers Grammar School 1.230 1.196 1.244 
			 Westlands School and Technology 1.254 1.218 1.291 
			 Paignton Community and Sports College 1.105 1.060 1.125 
			 St. Cuthbert Mayne School 0.751 0.716 0.760 
			 Torquay Boys Grammer School 1.568 1.473 (1)1.562 (0.4 % reduction) 
		
	
	
		
			   Provisional learner allocations for 2009/10  Allocations sent on 31 March 2009  Final learner allocations for 2009/10 
			 Torquay Grammar School for Girls 253 244 253 
			 Churston Ferrers Grammar School 258 248 258 
			 Westlands School and Technology 245 236 245 
			 Paignton Community and Sports College 238 229 238 
			 St. Cuthbert Mayne School 158 152 158 
			 Torquay Boys Grammer School 320 308 320